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Cisco delivers high-definition video call to the US

Telepresence. Now that’s a word we haven’t heard much since the 90s… Looks like science fact has finally caught up with science fiction though as U.S. electronics company and heavyweight VoIP provider Cisco announces “umi” – a device and service combo they’re calling a “home telepresence system”.

In layman’s terms it’s video calling, through your telly.

Umi, pronounced “you-me”, has some pretty impressive specs. There are two parts – a set top box which is, basically, a dedicated computer and a separateTV mounted camera. With up to 1080p video, it’ll plug directly into any HDMI TV. The resolution scales dynamically, based on available bandwidth. Built in microphone and speakers pick up your words of greeting and send them over the ether via the Internet to your Umi owning friends and family. Alternatively, you can connect to PC users as long as they have a web cam and Google Video Chat.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never felt quite comfortable with video calls – either on my computer or mobile (and Faisal’s views on the subject are just a couple of blog entries down the page) – but this seems like a distinctive step up from the poxy, pixelated video calling we’ve all been used to. With HD quality on your flat screen TV, we can imagine this being a much more immersive, engaging experience. If it works.

Of course, it ain’t cheap. $599 for the kit and $24.99 a month for the service subscription. And it’s not available in the UK. In fact, the only real reason we’re blogging about it is to say “Ooh, look at that. Cool”.

cisco 2621

Cisco Systems offers a new level of versatility, integration, and power to remote branch offices with the Cisco 2600 series modular access router family. The Cisco 2600 series shares modular interfaces with the popular Cisco 1600 and 3600 series, providing a cost-effective solution to meet today’s remote branch office needs and for evolving applications such as multiservice voice/data integration, departmental dial services and Extranet/VPN access. The modular architecture of the Cisco 2600 series provides the versatility needed to adapt to changes in network technology as new services and applications become available. Driven by a powerful RISC processor, the Cisco 2600 series provides the extra power needed to support the advanced quality of service (QoS), security, and network integration features required in today’s remote branch offices.

Cisco 2621, 1 network module slot platform with 1-2 10/100BaseT Ethernet port(s) and 2 integrated WIC slots. Up to 26,000 PPP (packets per second), or 26Kpps.The Cisco 2621 offers WAN-service flexibility and investment protection by supporting the same WAN interface cards available for the Cisco 1600 series, 2600 series, 3600 series and Cisco 1720 VPN access router

Device Type: Router
Enclosure Type: Desktop – Modular
Compatible Slots: None
Data Link Protocol: Serial,Fast Ethernet,Ethernet
Data Transfer Rate: 100 Mbps
Form Factor: External
Installed Devices / Modules Qty: 3 3 (write)
Features: Full duplex capability,Manageable
Compliant Standards: IEEE 802.3,IEEE 802.3u
Processor: 1 x Motorola MPC860 50 MHz
RAM: 16 MB (installed) / 64 MB (max) – SDRAM – DIMM 100-pin
Flash Memory: 8 MB (installed) / 32 MB (max)

cisco 2621 promotion from Knowledge Computers

Cisco Linksys among the “millions” of hackable routers

Ever wanted to cut millions of routers? Or try to stop someone doing it?

Perhaps a discussion at the next Black Hat conference in Las Vegas will help the objectives of one or both. And its title, “How to cut millions of routers,” cuts right to the chase as well.

The talk will be by Craig Heffner, senior security engineer seismic LLC, a Maryland-based provider of products cybersecurity at the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. In it, apparently Heffner disclosed how to exploit a lot of consumer routers through DNS rebinding, an existing technique in which attackers turn “browsers in the Web proxies are victims attackers bidding.

DNS rebinding trick browsers in search of the internal network servers of the victim under the direction of the attacker, who may order to find and send corporate data to an external machine while evading detection by the user and not to tamper with DNS servers. Discussion Heffner to describe how you can use to access the internal router facing administrative interface without previous knowledge of the destination router or its settings, and bypass all the safeguards in place rebinding.

Heffner even show a tool that automates the attack and allows the attacker to browse the destination router interface in real time, allowing the exploitation of vulnerabilities or connection through the default credentials.

Cisco Linksys routers are vulnerable to court, such as under the brand names ActionTec, Asus, Belkin, Dell and Thompson. ActionTec routers are CPE in the Verizon FiOS service and talk Heffner will include a live demonstration on how to infiltrate a FiOS router by rebinding hack.

Cisco strengthens the industry switches, routers

Cisco has announced a Catalyst Ethernet switch doubly powerful, condensed edge router and a host of other new and enhanced products designed to help companies extend the services of more powerful network of branches and beyond.

View a slideshow of the HP and Cisco products announced today

Cisco says the offer will fit her “borderless networks, the architecture is intended to support applications, processing cycles and services that are increasingly distributed and virtualized, such as cloud computing environments and software as a service.

“It’s hard to find a comparable product portfolio in the industry,” said Zeus Kerravala, an analyst at Yankee Group. “No one out there with the”.

Topping the list is an improved version of E Catalyst 4500 switch that doubles the bandwidth of the slot of the previous versions. The 10-slot chassis now has 848Gbps of bandwidth of the system or 48 Gbps per slot. It also runs modular Cisco IOS XE Linux-based operating system, the first set of Catalyst to do so.

384 The switch supports Power-over-Ethernet ports also Gigabit Ethernet SFP ports 200 or 100 ports of 10G Ethernet SFP +. It also offers three options for software services – Connecting Base, IP and services company; TrustSec, MediaNet EnergyWise and security, video and energy management and visibility NetFlow applications.

Kerravala notes that in 848Gbps, the 4500E is now “more robust” than the higher-end Catalyst 6500 (Cisco has said previously that its previous 4500 E matched up well against high-level offerings from rivals such as HP). He and other observers expect Cisco to upgrade soon 720Gbps 6500 to 1. 44Tbps perhaps, or almost 3Tbps in a Virtual Switching System (VSS) configuration.

4500 E switch starts at $ 27,480.

Another novelty is the short version of the recently unveiled edge router ASR 1000 for the companies – the ASR 1001. This 1RU router enables users to improve application performance of 2.5 Gbps to 5 Gbps through software activation.

It supports software redundancy housing and reserve active images of the IOS on the same hardware. Have parity with existing versions of the ASR 1000 line, including encryption in a maximum throughput of 1.8Gbps.

The ASR 1001 sports four Gigabit Ethernet ports and an integrated single slot which holds the same port adapters that current ASR 1000. It also includes a daughter board which, at first customer ship sport T two OC-3 and three of four WAN interfaces. Later versions will have cards that support daughter 8xT-1/E-1 (channelized), Ethernet 4xGigabit, and a hard drive – possibly with a minimum of 160 gigabytes – to the activation of wide-area services (WAAS).

Regarding WAAS Cisco WAAS Express unveiled a version of IOS-based WAN Optimizer available on demand application acceleration based on Layer 4 information. Cisco also released a version of WAAS for services Routing Engine (SRE) in the form of Integrated Services Routers (ISR) that provides layer 4-7 in the optimization of demand.

Also new to the ISR is UCS Express, a subsidiary version of the Unified Computer System blade server data center that is designed for the survival of the application. UCS Express running on Microsoft Windows and VMware, and is designed to ensure operational coherence between UCS and application servers in the data center and remote sites. But there is a complete UCS, Cisco says – that differ in memory and disk capacity, and not support the virtual machine mobility.

The ASR 1001 will be available in December. It costs $ 30,000. WAAS Express is available now starting at $ 1,000. SRE WAAS is also available now and starts at $ 2,500. UCS Express will be available in November and starts at $ 2,800.

For wireless local area networks, Cisco Aironet 1040 unveiled the access point. It is an entry point 802.11n access level for small and medium enterprises and “economic buyers,” says Cisco. It costs $ 495 for a single-band version and $ 795 dual-band.

Cisco tie things together with integration services. Smart Business Enterprise Architecture provides “prescriptive” design guides for more than 10,000 endpoints and Smart Net Total Care is a support service to the management of the company’s installed base.

Smart Net Total Care will be available in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011 Cisco – May, June and July 2011. The price varies depending on the scope of service. SBA Enterprise is now available. The price was not disclosed.

Cisco also included in the management applications to its portfolio of services called CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS). LMS 4.0 supports the management of more than 560 Cisco devices, including the new G2 ISR routers, and Catalyst 2960-S, 3560-X, 3750 X-4500E and switches. Provides control, repair, configuration and lifecycle management, and can be deployed in “workplace”, defined by EnergyWise, TrustSec and other specific operational groups.

LMS 4. 0 is available now for $ 2,500 for up to 50 devices and up to $ 90,000 for 10,000 devices.